Word: sullenness
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...enduring effect will be cultural rather than political?the development of alternative lifestyles, for example. Much of the political energy of the movement was subsumed by the McGovern campaign. But for many months now, with the ending of the draft, the old activism has been dead. In many, a sullen kind of privatism has replaced the formerly furious idealism. In a sense, the war has ended by producing a basically antipolitical generation. Observes Political Scientist Richard Young: "More and more on the campuses, you see a kind of I'm-going-to-get-mine style that's quite different from...
...blithe and cunning satire on the fine art of daydreaming, young-housewife division. Her new book is about a drive from Manhattan to Mexico by 35-year-old Emily Brimberg Johnson, a bitter woman in the process of divorcing the painter who walked out on her adoration. Their sullen daughter is a reluctant passenger...
...Mexico City schlemiel and the Munich superstar are the same person: Mark Andrew Spitz of Carmichael, Calif. The sullen, abrasively cocky kid with the sunken visage has matured into a smooth, adroitly confident young man with modish locks and mustache. More important, he has developed into a talent without peer in the world of competitive swimming. In the four years since his personal disaster in Mexico City, where he won only two gold medals (and those in relay events), Spitz has grown up, graduated from college and at one time or another broken 28 world freestyle and butterfly records. That...
Most men arrive at Little Creek like Frank-sullen, hostile, and if they recognize that they have a drinking problem at all, convinced that they can deal with it themselves. All but a handful quickly realize that they are wrong. A former crewman from the U.S.S. Pueblo, who spent eleven months in a North Korean prison camp after his ship was captured, used to blame his drinking on the ordeal of incarceration. Only after therapy did he admit to himself that he would have needed help even without that trying experience. "You can only be a dummy for so long...
...demonstrators' heroes-five dock workers who had been briefly jailed for illegal picketing practices -were the focus of what suddenly exploded last week into the most sullen and emotional confrontations between British labor and British government since Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath came to power two years ago. By midweek, when the Pentonville Five were released on a convenient legal technicality, upwards of 170,000 British workers had left their jobs in sympathy strikes that slowed or shut down mines and steel mills, virtually closed London's Heathrow airport, stopped most of London's busses...